Ernest Sosa is currently the Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology and Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, Rhode Island and regular visiting professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He plans to leave Brown and take a full-time position at Rutgers beginning in January, 2007. He is generally considered to be one of the leading contemporary epistemologists, and has also written on modern philosophy and metaphysics. Sosa earned his MA from the University of Miami and his PhD from [Pittsburgh University] where he studied under Roderick Chisolm. His son, David Sosa, is associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. A professor (Latin: one who publicly professes to be an expert) (or prof for short) is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Natural theology is the knowledge of God accessible to all rational human beings without recourse to any special or supposedly supernatural revelation. ... The Philosopher (detail), by Rembrandt Philosophy is a study that includes various diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. ... Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Official language(s) None Capital Providence Largest city Providence Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 50th 4,005 km² 50 km 65 km 32. ... Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is the largest institution for higher education in the U.S. state of New Jersey. ... Epistemology is an analytic branch of philosophy which studies the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge. ... 17th-century philosophy in the West is generally regarded as seeing the start of modern philosophy, and the shaking off of the mediæval approach, especially scholasticism. ... Metaphysics (Greek words meta = after/beyond and physics = nature) is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of first principles and being (ontology). ... This is an article about the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. ... The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. ...

Sosa is a past president of the American Philosophical Association. The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. ...

Along with Jaegwon Kim, he edits the quarterly philosophical journal Noûs. Jaegwon Kim (1934- ) is an American philosopher who explores the limitations of theories of strict psychophysical identity. ...

External link

• Ernest Sosa's home page